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<title>Major Nelson Confirms Length of Next Xbox Reveal - Nibble</title>
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[Posted 21 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Mark E. Johnson</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/news/m/a/majornelso393906m/_-Major-Nelson-Confirms-Length-of-Next-Xbox-Reveal-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">After a spot of apparent confusion, Microsoft's Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb has confirmed that the length of tonight's event revealing the next Xbox will be one hour.</strong>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FAQ: How long is the <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23XboxReveal">#XboxReveal</a> event tomorrow? A: The show will be an hour long.</p>&mdash; Larry Hryb (@majornelson) <a href="https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/336611265403318272">May 20, 2013</a></blockquote>

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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Splinter Cell: Blacklist Trailer Shows Co-op - Nibble</title>
<link>http://spong.com/nibble/29602/New-Splinter-Cell-Blacklist-Trailer-Shows-Co-op</link>
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[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Svend Joscelyne</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/screen-shot/s/p/splinterce373008m/_-New-Splinter-Cell-Blacklist-Trailer-Shows-Co-op-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">Ubisoft has released a new trailer showcasing <em class="stylerItalic">Splinter Cell: Blacklist&#39;s</em> intriguing new co-op mode.</strong><br/>
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According to the description on the Youtube page, the new two-player co-op mode offers &#34;4 mission types, 14 maps with 2 player split-screen. Play as Sam Fisher or Isaac Briggs (a CIA operative) and work as a duo : help your teammate  ... <a href="http://spong.com/nibble/29602/New-Splinter-Cell-Blacklist-Trailer-Shows-Co-op">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Kevin Conroy Outs Brand New Batman: Arkham Game - News</title>
<link>http://spong.com/article/29601/Kevin-Conroy-Outs-Brand-New-Batman-Arkham-Game</link>
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<strong>Confusion in Dallas!</strong>
[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Svend Joscelyne</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/news/k/e/kevinconro393897m/_-Kevin-Conroy-Outs-Brand-New-Batman-Arkham-Game-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">Bothered about the fact that famed <em class="stylerItalic">Batman</em> voice actor Kevin Conroy <a href="http://spong.com/article/29432/Holy-Voice-Actor-Omission-Kevin-Conroy-Wont-Star-in-Batman-Arkham-Origins" target="_blank">won&#39;t be appearing in upcoming video game prequel <em class="stylerItalic">Arkham Origins</em></a>? Fret not - because the star has outed another <em class="stylerItalic">Arkham</em> game that he <span class="stylerUnderscore">will</span> be starring in.</strong><br/>
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During a Q&#38;A panel at the Dallas Comic Con, Conroy said that &#34;We&#39;ve </a> ... <a href="http://spong.com/article/29601/Kevin-Conroy-Outs-Brand-New-Batman-Arkham-Game">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - Review</title>
<link>http://spong.com/feature/10111035/Review-Call-of-Juarez-Gunslinger</link>
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[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Mark E. Johnson</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/screen-shot/c/a/callofjuar393223m/_-Call-of-Juarez-Gunslinger-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">Remember how you felt that first time you held a gun in your hand? The weight of it in your palm, the tingle of anticipation as you squeezed the trigger... the spattering of pixels as the piece of blue plastic you held in your hand fired a beam of light at the screen and changed a virtual world irrevocably </strong> ... <a href="http://spong.com/feature/10111035/Review-Call-of-Juarez-Gunslinger">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>PS4 First Look Day and Date Announced in Video - News</title>
<link>http://spong.com/article/29600/PS4-First-Look-Day-and-Date-Announced-in-Video</link>
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<strong>With Next Xbox reveal tomorrow, Sony hits out with a spoiler</strong>
[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Tim Smith</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/news/d/d393896m/_-PS4-First-Look-Day-and-Date-Announced-in-Video-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">In the game of console cat and mouse Sony has now made it clear why it didn&#39;t bother to show the actual PS4 hardware during its announcement - it was waiting for E3 and for Microsoft&#39;s Xbox 720 announcement.</strong><br/>
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Sony has now gone ahead with its announcement of an announcement of the PS4 in the video that  ... <a href="http://spong.com/article/29600/PS4-First-Look-Day-and-Date-Announced-in-Video">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sir Christopher Lee Comes to Kickstarter - News</title>
<link>http://spong.com/article/29598/Sir-Christopher-Lee-Comes-to-Kickstarter</link>
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<strong>With classic UK games guru Mel Croucher</strong>
[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Tim Smith</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/news/c/h/christophe393895m/_-Sir-Christopher-Lee-Comes-to-Kickstarter-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">You will have heard of Sir Christopher Lee in his role as Karl Marx in a <em class="stylerItalic">Ring of Bright Water</em> (yes, we know, he&#39;s actually Dracula in <em class="stylerItalic">Lord of the Rings</em>) but we bet you didn&#39;t know that he was going to appear in a video game being reimagined by one of the world&#39;s greatest game making </strong> ... <a href="http://spong.com/article/29598/Sir-Christopher-Lee-Comes-to-Kickstarter">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Batman: Arkham Origins First Trailer 9/10 Definitely - Nibble</title>
<link>http://spong.com/nibble/29599/Batman-Arkham-Origins-First-Trailer-9-10-Definitely</link>
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[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Tim Smith</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/artwork/b/a/batmanarkh391244m/_-Batman-Arkham-Origins-First-Trailer-9-10-Definitely-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold"><em class="stylerItalic">Batman: Arkham Origins</em> is coming. We&#39;re all extremely excited in the sure knowledge that before we&#39;ve even touched a joypod this will be a mighty game.</strong><br/>
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Yes, just looking at this trailer makes us throw any critical faculties out of the window. Instead we are donning badly dyed bedsheets and leaping from SPOnG sofa to SPOnG  ... <a href="http://spong.com/nibble/29599/Batman-Arkham-Origins-First-Trailer-9-10-Definitely">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:49:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Moment that Dyack Went to War with Kotaku - News</title>
<link>http://spong.com/article/29596/The-Moment-that-Dyack-Went-to-War-with-Kotaku</link>
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<strong>Game creator takes to video to defend reputation</strong>
[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Tim Smith</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/news/d/d393893m/_-The-Moment-that-Dyack-Went-to-War-with-Kotaku-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold"><em class="stylerItalic">X-Men: Destiny</em> game maker Denis Dyack has been pushed by his new company CEO to defend his reputation against an attack from Gawker-published Kotaku in an astonishing 33 minute video.</strong><br/>
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<a href="http://spong.com/article/29517/Dyack-Studio-Buys-Silicon-Knights-Assets" target="_blank">As we reported</a> Dyack has left his previous company, Silicon Knights to join a new organisation called Precursor Games, which is hoping to use </a> ... <a href="http://spong.com/article/29596/The-Moment-that-Dyack-Went-to-War-with-Kotaku">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Teaser Video for Call of Duty: Ghosts Materialises - Nibble</title>
<link>http://spong.com/nibble/29597/Teaser-Video-for-Call-of-Duty-Ghosts-Materialises</link>
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[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Svend Joscelyne</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/artwork/c/a/callofduty392721m/_-Teaser-Video-for-Call-of-Duty-Ghosts-Materialises-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">Activision has released a teaser video of <em class="stylerItalic">Call of Duty: Ghosts</em>, ahead of the game&#39;s full gameplay reveal at Microsoft&#39;s Xbox event tomorrow night.</strong><br/>
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The video is only 6 seconds long, and was posted on the publisher&#39;s official Vine account last night. It teases a number of scenes that we could see during the gameplay reveal  ... <a href="http://spong.com/nibble/29597/Teaser-Video-for-Call-of-Duty-Ghosts-Materialises">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>SEGA and Nintendo: A Match Made in Heaven - Opinion</title>
<link>http://spong.com/feature/10111036/Opinion-SEGA-and-Nintendo-A-Match-Made-in-Heaven</link>
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<strong>Why recent Wii U partnership is a good thing</strong>
[Posted 20 May 2013  by <span itemprop="author" rel="author">Svend Joscelyne</span>]
<br/><br/><img src="http://spong.com/editorial/s/e/segaandnin393894m/_-SEGA-and-Nintendo-A-Match-Made-in-Heaven-_.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right"/><strong class="stylerBold">SEGA fans have had a lot to complain about lately. And it largely involves Nintendo. Once bitter rivals in the 1990s, the two companies have long since reconciled their differences, leading to the culture shock of seeing <em class="stylerItalic">Sonic the Hedgehog</em> on a Gamecube back in 2001. Today, we&#146;re seeing similar reactions thanks to some exclusive Wii U deals.</strong>  ... <a href="http://spong.com/feature/10111036/Opinion-SEGA-and-Nintendo-A-Match-Made-in-Heaven">click to read full item</a>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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